One of these, the 'City Dionysia', a festival of entertainment held in honor of the god Dionysus, featured competitions in music, singing, dance and poetry. And most remarkable of all the winners ...

In 472 BC, eight years after the defeat of the Persians at Salamis, the young Pericles, now in his late 20s, sponsored a major dramatic production for the festival of Dionysus. As well as ...

Archeologists dug up frescoes spanning three walls inside a ruined banquet hall portraying the secretive initiation rites known as the Mysteries of Dionysus that date back to 40-30 BC, the Pompeii ...

We have drama competitions that take place every year during the ‘Festival of Dionysus’, the God of wine. I’ve won four times by the way. We write tragedies - more serious plays, often based ...